Australia Festival Update

National Film and Sound Archive
Arc Cinema, NFSA
McCoy Circuit, Acton
Canberra

Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound ArchiveA new, state-of-the-art 250-seat cinema, Arc offers an outstanding cinematic experience and a unique pre-screening light and sound show.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
2-2.50pm: Big shots, small packages #2 Short films for kids aged 3 to 7
Check here for festval details

Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids

AFC is now touring in Australia!
It will be appearing in various places thoughout the summer. Sydney details coming soon.

Here are some of the details:

Screens in:

Melbourne
June 03, 2009: 11.30am-12.20pm: Big shots, small packages 2: Short films for kids aged 3 to 7 at Artplay on Birrarung Marr
June 05, 2009: 11.30am-12.20pm: Big shots, small packages 2: Short films for kids aged 3 to 7 at Artplay on Birrarung Marr

Melbourne
June 06, 2009: 11.15am-12.15pm: Big shots, small packages 2 Short films for kids aged 3 to 7
June 08, 2009: 9.30am-10.30am: Big shots, small packages 2: Short films for kids aged 3 to 7

Adelaide
July 18, 2009: 9.30am-10.30am: Session 8 Short films for 3 to 7-year-olds

Kalamazoo Animation Festival International 2009

AFC will be showing at KAFI, May 14-17.

Check out the festival website for all the events!

BAMkids Film Festival - New York!

The next Stop for AFC is New York City - the 11th annual BAMkids Film Festival! Check it out at the end of this month for it's New York Premeire.

Shorts Program: Worldwide Wonders
When: Sat, Feb 28 & Sun, Mar 1 at 3pm

TF backlog

Kermit the Gorf
Moose

Yo-Yo

Skyscraper

Snowman

Vampire

Transformer

Nerd

Yoda

Gun

Elephant

Garbage

Fly

Chef

Umbrella

Pumpkin

Atari 2600 - Adventure T-Shirt

You can't get more classic than Adventure for the Atari 2600. Still the best Dragon design in videogame history. As a Christmas present, I created this T-shirt with all 3 of the dragons in their passive pose. Made with a hand-carved template and some fabric paint.

Kid Drawing

This is a piece I did for the Art Jumble topic - Kid Monster drawings. I had my niece, Jenna, whip something up. She mailed it to me, and I tried to faithfully reproduce the essence of her creation. Nothing can beat that charm that a child can capture so effortlessly.

Chicago International Childrens Film Festival

I just returned from the last evening of the festival and it was an extremely fulfilling experience. The films from around the world were all unique in their own way. Seeing how this fest brought them all together, with the primary purpose to entertain and inspire kids, made it all the more exciting to be a part of. Being from Chicago, the film houses were not too far from my door, but most of the film making attendees came from across the globe.

Here I am at the Nov. 1st showing of my film at the Biograph theatre - answering questions from the crowd. The crew from the film "Elephants" (to the right of me) was in from London. It was a treat to hear audience responses to AFC first hand, laughing and reacting to the humor and tender moments (and getting the applause at the end of coarse). Thanks so much to everyone that said they enjoyed AFC. Hearing that it connects with kids and adults alike is so rewarding for me. The crew from Facets and all the members of the CICFF were extremely friendly and really had the shows well choreographed. Everything ran like a well oiled machine. Even the children, who were a huge part of the audience, were all well behaved and sat quietly in every showing I sat in on.

It was a delight to be a part of this festival. My wife and I already have the brain juice flowing with new film ideas thanks to the inspiring work we saw.

Chicago International Children's Film Festival

AFC will soon be showing in Chicago. Great for me because I can actually attend this fest since I live here! :) Anyone in the area be sure to save one of these dates to attend. There's a Weekday and Weekend showings. See below and look for these show titles to find AFC.

Saturday October 25, 3:00pm - Facets Cinema

Animation shorts block - "That's What Friends Are For!"

Tuesday October 28, 11:45am - Facets Cinema

Animation shorts block - "It's A Small World After All"

Saturday November 1, 11:00am - Biograph Theatre

Sunday, November 2, 11:30am Wilmette Theater

Both days, Animation shorts block - "Perfect Pedigree"

You can also check these links to check the entire CICFF schedule:

Weekday

Weekend

More TF!

Here is the latest TF work from the last couple weeks - the topics I could get to anyway :) Enjoy!

Mailbox

Highway

Juggler

Computer

Wagon

Toad

Robotic Twinkie

Microwave

Skeleton

Giraffe

Grotesque Wonder Woman

TF - Week Four

Link

King

Jellyfish

Gorilla


Eel


Penguin

Cherub

Another week of TF Illos! And as a special bonus, k. borcz of ChicagoAnimators.com posted my comic-con interview! Check it out and the other interviews from artists and animators from the San Diego Comic Con.

TF - Week Three

Plant People

Punch

Bed

Cake

Hunchback

Lincoln

Beatnik

Scorpion

TF - Week Two

Enjoy this weeks Thought Faucet offerings!

Green vs. Yellow

Washington

Clouds



Sink

Backpack

Doll

Hand

TF - Week One

It was a busy and productive week. The Thought Faucet had it's first full week and there were some wonderfully diverse contributions. Here are my contributions based on the topics:

Pull

Top-Heavy Robots

Ear

Damage

Zeppelin

Enforcer

Knight

THOUGHT FAUCET

I've joined up with a new art blog group to keep the creaitive inspiration going. It's called "Thought Faucet" and it's all about interpretaion - how one artist sees something will inspire another and the chain from artist to artist keeps it going. Wonderfully designed and already filled with some great talent, it should be a fun blog to keep an eye on.

Here is my first submission - the first daily topic was "Toaster".